Just to followup regarding the matching room comments above, I got a call for a newborn almost two weeks ago. I asked the SW why they weren't deciding between three fosterparents like I was previously told. She explained the county workers only use that system if they want to...and the county worker that had my baby didn't want to do that (lucky me!).
In regards to the classes, I agree they were useless for me and hubby. But it made us learn how messed up the system is and prepared us for the unknown.
We took infant CPR at Torrance Memorial Medical Center. Not sure where you are located. One nice thing about Torrance Memorial is that their CPR is on Saturday's (3.5 hours to complete it) and it's good for TWO years whereas our agencies classes were only good for ONE year.
By the way, all the stuff you have to go through to fost-adopt is totally worth it in the end - I say this while I have a 2 week old baby snuggled on my shoulder as I type
